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Check out these photos from Marina Mokhnatkina vs. Evelyn Martins at 2023 PFL 5 in Atlanta.
Check out these photos from [autotag]Marina Mokhnatkina[/autotag]’s victory over Evelyn Martins at 2023 PFL 5 at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. (Photos courtesy of Cooper Neill, PFL MMA)
Check out the full weigh-in results for 2023 PFL 5, which had one miss out of 24 fighters competing.
All 24 fighters competing at 2023 PFL 5 stepped on the scale, but not all made weight.
At Thursday’s official weigh-ins, only one fighter was unable to reach the contracted weight – [autotag]Evelyn Martins[/autotag]. She came in at 147 pounds, one over the allowance for the women’s featherweight division. Martins will get a point deducted from the result of the fight, and her opponent [autotag]Marina Mokhnatkina[/autotag] will also receive 20 percent of Martins’s purse.
Everyone one else on the card made weight, including the heavyweight main event between [autotag]Ante Delija[/autotag] and [autotag]Maurice Greene[/autotag], as well as the co-main event of [autotag]Larissa Pacheco[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Amber Leibrock[/autotag].
2023 PFL 5 takes place Friday at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. The main card airs on ESPN following prelims on ESPN+
Below you can find the full results from the weigh-ins:
MAIN CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET)
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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for PFL 2023, Week 5.
Check out these photos from Evelyn Martins’ victory over Karolina Sobek at 2023 PFL 2 in Las Vegas.
Check out these photos from [autotag]Evelyn Martins[/autotag]’ victory over Karolina Sobek at 2023 PFL 2 at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas (Photos courtesy of Cooper Neill/PFL)
Check out these photos from the 2023 PFL Challenger Series 2 ceremonial weigh-ins and fighter faceoffs in Florida.
Check out these photos from the 2023 PFL Challenger Series 2 ceremonial weigh-ins and fighter faceoffs in Orlando, Fla. (Photos courtesy of PFL)
A pair of title fights closed the show at Titan FC 68 on Friday with one champ defending and another being crowned.
[autotag]Danny Sabatello[/autotag] was levels above [autotag]Da’Mon Blackshear[/autotag] on the ground at Titan FC 67 on Friday, and it led to a one-sided main event.
Sabatello (10-1) put his grappling to use over and over throughout the course of five rounds, and Blackshear (8-4) had no answer. As a result, Sabatello left the cage with a unanimous decision victory, as he successfully defended his Titan FC bantamweight title for the first time. The scores were 50-45, 50-45 and 49-46 at the InterContinental Miami in Miami, Fla.
Sabatello’s strategy was no secret from the outset. He attacked with takedowns and established a presence from top position in the first round. It was a route from there on out, with Sabatello controlling Blackshear in the grappling positions, chipping away with ground-and-pound and going for submissions.
The semi-conservative approach from Sabatello garnered come displeasure from the small crowd in attendance as well as the commentary team. Nevertheless, he got his hand raised in his first fight since not receiving a UFC contract for his dominant win at Dana White’s Contender Series 35 in November.
He didn’t care, though, and shared his thoughts to anyone who took issue with his style.
“If you (expletive) (expletives) want to boo me, that’s fine,” Sabatello said in his post-fight interview. “But this is mixed martial arts. You don’t like? Come (expletive) beat me. If it’s not exciting, I don’t give a (expletive). Come beat me. You won’t.”
Blackshear, who, according to the broadcast experienced a travel crisis en route to the event, missed the 145-pound championship limit by three pounds, and would have been ineligible to leave as champion.
Sabatello would have still kept the title had he lost, but it didn’t matter in the end, because he delivered a dominant victory.
Prior to Sabatello’s triumph in the main event, [autotag]Olivier Murad[/autotag] (5-0) claimed the vacant Titan FC featherweight belt in the event co-headliner in a competitive unanimous decision win over [autotag]Muhammad Naimov[/autotag] (5-2).
Complete Titan FC 67 result included:
